Name: Explained | Why Women Are Paid Less | FULL EPISODE | Netflix
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T03:40:44.000Z
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[Rachel McAdams] The pay gap between men and women around the world

looks a little different depending on how you measure it.

In Poland, women earn 91 cents for every dollar a man does.

In South Korea, women make just 65 cents on the dollar.

We know that just freeing the potential of women,

that is the fastest multiplier that we have in terms of our growth.

That is such an accelerator in eradicating poverty.

When you go to the store, you don't get a woman's discount.

You have to pay the same as everybody else.

[McAdams] When someone mentions the pay gap,

[McAdams] It makes it sound like women are paid less

which means women are paid less just for being women.

But a huge body of research from many countries shows

that overt pay discrimination only potentially explains

It's a real number, but it really, actually tells you almost nothing

about the real disparity between men and women.

Women aren't looking for a leg up. They want equal opportunity

If you want to change culture, you can't sit down and wait.

[McAdams] So, if it's not all about discrimination,

why are women around the world paid so much less than men?

[man] The woman who works at a career has chosen to ignore that the woman's place...

It doesn't matter if you have a female or male body,

[man] I see some really advanced clerical work.

Pays women 80 cents for every dollar it pays men.

[woman] This is our time to stand up to have our voices heard.

[McAdams] The story in the United States is similar to a lot of countries.

It wasn't very long ago that most women, especially white women,

there weren't very many women in the workforce.

The women there were were often not as well educated as the men.

or they didn't have the same credentials in college,

Most of the women in my neighborhood did not work.

The only women that I saw in professional roles were teachers.

[McAdams] Most women didn't get that far.

Seventy percent had menial jobs on factory assembly lines or in offices.

[man] Women workers don't mind routine, repetitive work,

and they're good on work that requires high finger dexterity.

[McAdams] People understood that a woman might need to earn a little money,

Your high score on the clerical aptitude test

indicates that you can become a good secretary.

[McAdams] Discrimination was also totally legal,

allowing employers to put out job listings for men only.

I couldn't have even imagined women engineers.

[McAdams] The pay gap hovered around 60 cents on the dollar.

It was caused by several interconnected factors,

women not being in the workforce in big numbers,

grouping in traditionally feminine industries,

and the fact that it was perfectly legal to pay women less,

and then a slew of cultural norms about gender roles and aptitudes.

These were the major explanations for the pay gap.

And then, in just a few decades, things changed.

[man] The battle cry of the women's liberation movement

[man] First woman to receive the highest honor of the National...

[man] The House broke into spontaneous applause.

[man] This is the first American woman in space.

[man] First woman nominated to the Supreme Court.

[man] First woman ever to run on a Presidential ticket.

My candidacy has said to women, "The doors of opportunity are open."

Women are out-earning men in college degrees and advanced degrees.

[woman] Women are engaged to bring the next generation.

women are actually outnumbering men in the workplace.

to see women competing for scholarships I couldn't have competed for,

going to schools that were not open to women,

taking on jobs that were closed to women.

[McAdams] Many of the factors that were causing the pay gap shrunk,

[Anne-Marie Slaughter] But what has stayed is that women bear children.

They are assumed to be the primary caregiver.

[McAdams] Even as women became doctors, and lawyers, and heads of state,

the popular expectation remained in society

that they would still do most of the work of raising children.

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